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9 neighbours who had come to see his corpses and poor Sandy went home with a skin full of terror, and a sorting of sore bones, touk a sore fever, and died a few days after, so he got quit of his cuckolder, and Leper's mother got her load of meal.

Leper's mother was a careful industrious wife, but as the bye-word is "a working mother makes a dally daughter," and so it happened here, for she had two idle gleaket sluts of daughters, that would do nothing but lie in their bed in the morning, till, as the saying is," the sun was like to burn a hole in their backsides." The old woman, who was bleaching some cloth, was very early at work in the mornings, and Leper's patience being worn out with the laziness of his two sisters, he resolved to play a trick on them, for their reformation; gets a mortcloth, and spread it on the bed above them, and sends the dead bell through the town, inviting the people next day at four o'clock afternoon, to the burial of his two sisters, for they had died sudenly: this brought all the neighbouring wives in, who one after another lifted up the mortcloth and said, with a sigh, they've gone to their rest, a sudden call indeed! Their aunt hearing of this sudden news, came running in all haste, and coming where the jades mither was at